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Does anyone else have this same persistant idea of waving toodle pip to good old Blighty and Canading it up?

I went through this little test thing (link below) the other day and scraped the number of points I'd need to be a, er, 'skilled worker' (ha ha! s'if); if I manage another year or two of study then that's even better.

Vancouver? Awesome, but maybe a better place to visit than live. Toronto? Definate possibility. Montreal? Key feature: freezing. But nice. Halifax was full of flying ants, so that's out.

is that it's not got many academic job opportunities. I'd be hard pressed getting work, I think.

Also, beautiful as it was, it didn't seem like the most.. practical of places? I'm not sure. I didn't get the feeling that it'd be an easy place to settle. I dunno; maybe I need to do some investigation.

non-academic HE job opportunites primarily (Univesity Admin), but there seemed to be a fair few in B.C, just not that many specifically in Vancouver. I think I prefer living just outside of big cities anyway.

Vancouver/Toronto/Montreal = some of the finest North American cities, with fewer of the social problems in many large cities in the US (apart from homelessness/mental health care which is pretty shockingly bad).

Canadians: *SWEEPING GENERALISATION ALERT* seem to have the perfect mix of American friendliness and British self-deprecating humour.

Music scene: you know about that, yeah?

Healthcare: better than the US, as you don't have to pay masses on health insurance.

is that their government is trying to make it an attractive deal to move there. They're actively seeking skilled workers; I have no idea how their economy can be supporting this while that little country bordering them to the South is having a money crisis.

So as well as being a very nice place, it's actually fairly easy to do it.